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 Sunday, September 29, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:57 PM   0 comments   

GLAMOUR FACTOR :: NEXT GENERATION CONSOLES

On the next generation of consoles, expected in 2004 or 2005, Animation will become really smooth. With PlayStation 3 we will get life-like stuff. The subtleties that Disney has been doing for years will come to games.

Bruce McMillan, executive vice president of EA's Worldwide Studios said:
"We're going to surpass Hollywood in entertainment value."

But Games still lack one element of the Hollywood lure: GLAMOUR.
As correctly said by Lucas van Grinsven, unlike famous actors, video games stars like Lara Croft do not get $10 million signing fees. And because they don't drink and date, they never make the gossip columns of Hello magazine. The games industry remains a software business with a lot of programmers tweaking codes on powerful workstations. Not exactly the stuff of dreams.

 

 Friday, September 27, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 7:38 AM   0 comments   

TRANSGENICS :: © Copyright 2002 USA TODAY

While cloning isn't seen as an environmental concern, transgenics are. New genes give animals an advantage -- but at a price. Take the line of catfish that create their own antibiotics. This just means the bacteria attacking them will get stronger.

In biology it's known as the Red Queen hypothesis, named for the huffy chess piece in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, who had to run faster and faster to stay in the same place.

''Any time you delay viral resistance, it just takes a few years before the viruses catch up,'' says Purdue University animal scientist William Muir.

 

 Thursday, September 26, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 6:43 PM   0 comments   

MARTIAL ARTS IN FLASH

CAPOEIRA FIGHTER 2 is the high-energy-fast-action-fierce-fighting-martial arts game and creation of Scott Stoddard.

http://spiritonin.com/capoeirafighter/

 


 Posted by Roberto
 10:32 AM   0 comments   

GAME CONSOLE OR HOME APPLIANCE?

Sony has already powered up PlayStation 2 by offering broadband kits that include an Internet navigator, an Ethernet adapter and a 40-gigabyte hard disk drive.
Today, Sony is ready to upgrade the machine further so it can record television shows.

"The game market and the audiovisual market are different, but this product could cover both," Fukunaga said.
With that, users can not only play online games but also store music from CDs and transfer it to their MD players, or save still pictures to enjoy slide shows on the TV monitor screen.

Microsoft has announced plans to launch online game services for its game console Xbox, which comes with a built-in hard drive and an Ethernet port, but the company said it had no plan to give the Xbox recording capability.

 

 Wednesday, September 25, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 10:09 AM   0 comments   

THEY MAKE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT OUR LIVES:

http://www.theyrule.net/

 

 Tuesday, September 24, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 11:30 PM   0 comments   

XBOX FACTS:

Xbox is available in Europe for an estimated street price of 249.99 euros ($246) or 159.99 pounds ($249).

Industry estimates say Microsoft is losing between $76 and $150 for every Xbox console sold

 


 Posted by Roberto
 11:30 PM   0 comments   

XBOX :: ONLINE GAMING IN THE UK

LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - UK Internet service provider BT Openworld said on Tuesday it would provide broadband access for Microsoft's (NasdaqNM:MSFT) highly touted online gaming service Xbox Live, due for pilot release in Europe at the end of November. Openworld has at least 170,000 broadband users, according to recent figures. Xbox Live will allow gamers with a broadband connection to play against others online, talk to the players through a headset, and download statistics and gaming upgrades to their Xbox hard disc.





 


 Posted by Roberto
 6:48 PM   0 comments   

MOTOROLA UNVEILS NEW LOCATION CHIP

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wireless technology giant Motorola Inc. unveiled on Tuesday a new chip with location pinpointing technology that is small enough to fit into a wristwatch.

Motorola said the chip called Motorola Instant GPS was developed by combining its Global Positioning System design with IBM's silicon germanium chip-making technology.

IBM's technology allowed Motorola to combine the function of many chips into one, helping reduce size and power consumption while improving performance.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 2:17 PM   0 comments   

ERICSSON HAS SHOWN HANDOVER OF CALLS BETWEEN GSMA AND WCDMA

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) Ericsson announced the first live handover of calls between the GSM and WCDMA third-generation mobile telephony standards on Tuesday, using test units.

This meant that a person talking on a cellphone from a car would automatically have the call transferred from a 3G network covering only a city area to a GSM network when driving into the countryside.

"From the operator's point of view you can offer customers complete coverage from the very beginning, and you don't need to have full 3G coverage in a country," Ericsson spokesman Peter Olofsson said.

"It has been debated and questioned whether this can be done. We don't know what our competitors are doing, but as far as we know they haven't shown it yet."

GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is the world's dominant second-generation wireless technology, currently used by most European operators.

WCDMA is a new standard which enables fast data rate transfers, particularly useful for data-heavy multimedia services such as picture and video messaging.

The 3G rollout has been plagued by delays in Europe with cash-strapped telecom operators choosing instead to focus on repairing their battered balance sheets after spending billions of euros on 3G licenses in 2000.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 12:48 AM   0 comments   

A COOL SMARTPHONE: NOKIA 3650

The Nokia 3650 is a Series 60 Platform smartphone with Symbian OS version 6.1.
Nokia 3650 at a glance

 

 Monday, September 23, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 12:01 AM   0 comments   

COOL MMS SERVICES OFFERED BY WIND

It's called video Wind, but it is basically an MMS service. They offer the classic content verticals: sport, traffic information, finance, weather... Basically the service is a picture slideshow with an audio track. It seems simple, but it is really the beginning of multimedia consumption. The service requires a Nokia 7650!

Wind MMS Service

 

 Sunday, September 22, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 11:31 PM   0 comments   

LATEST FRENCH MOBILE PHONES:

Beautiful + good color screen
Sagem My-x5

Big screen (unfortunately not a color screen) but a great GPRS class 10!
Alcatel One Touch 715

 


 Posted by Roberto
 11:19 PM   0 comments   

MUST HAVE GADGET!!!

The world's first handheld lie detector:
http://www.handytrusters.com

Great price: only USD 35.= or EUR 65.=

 


 Posted by Roberto
 1:11 PM   0 comments   

US LABOR FORCE STATISTICS

The Current Population Survey, a monthly household survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides a comprehensive body of information on the employment and unemployment experience of the Nation's population, classified by age, sex, race, and a variety of other characteristics.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm#annual

 

 Saturday, September 21, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:50 PM   0 comments   

STATISTICS ON HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS

http://www.top500.org/

A TERASCALE COMPUTING SYSTEM
Terascale refers to computational power beyond a "teraflop" - a trillion calculations per second

http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/terascale/bigiron.html

 

 Friday, September 20, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 12:18 PM   0 comments   

LATEST GLOBAL HANDSET STATISTICS

Great reasearch data available on this site:
http://www.cellular.co.za/stats/stats-main.htm

 

 Thursday, September 19, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:39 PM   0 comments   

GAMING CONSOLES MARKET

Sony Corp has shipped 40 million units of its PlayStation 2 globally:

:: Japan: 11 millions
:: Europe: 12 millions
:: USA: 17 millions

If we look at the Japanese market the gap between PSII and the rivals Xbox and Gamecube is widening. Here are the amounts of game consoles sold by Sony's rivals in Japan:

:: X-box: 0.27 millions
:: Gamecube: 1.5 millions

 


 Posted by Roberto
 10:31 AM   0 comments   

ULTRA WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY AND NEXT-GENERATION CELLULAR SYSTEMS

Next-generation cellular systems that combine voice, data, video and audio services are likely to use short-range wireless access to the wired Internet infrastructure instead of to the current telephone network. Ultrawideband is a wireless technology that potentially offers high-bandwidth communications without the constraints of spectrum allocation - with the added benefits of precise location detection and the ability to seemingly see through walls.

 

 Wednesday, September 18, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:26 AM   0 comments   

MICROSOFT .NET COMPACT FRAMEWORK

A smart device development platform for the .NET. It brings the world of managed code and XML web services to smart devices, and it enables the execution of secure, downloadable applications on devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, and set-top boxes.

Any machine that runs a .Net application requires the Framework at runtime, just as you need the Java Virtual Machine to run Java apps. As the name suggests, the Compact Framework is a subset of the full-blown Framework that should fit comfortably on mobile devices, just like J2ME.

Of course, you could run Java or .Net apps through a browser on your PDA!

:: Allows developers to reuse existing programming skills and existing code throughout the device, desktop, and server environments

:: Enables developers to build Extensible Markup Language (XML) web services and applications (built on XML and the Global XML Web Services Architecture of integration standards)

:: Enables developers to use different programming language and integrate applications written in different programming languages

 

 Tuesday, September 17, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 9:19 PM   0 comments   

ONLINE GAME MARKET IN JAPAN

With console systems all hooking up to the Web, growth of the online game market is expected to accelerate.

Following data have been provided by Nomura Research Institute
.: Japanese Online Game Market: it might grow 8 times in the upcoming 4 years
Year
2001 :: 35 billion yen
2006 :: 271 billion yen

forex: $1=122.22 yen

 


 Posted by Roberto
 9:05 PM   0 comments   

ONLINE GAMES

Playing games head-to-head over internet connections offers new opportunities to game publishers.
In fact, it makes their business model more interesting:
:: a subscription-based business with incremental revenues

 


 Posted by Roberto
 2:54 AM   0 comments   

CELL PHONES MARKET USA

Following data have been provided by Yankee Group

.: Monthly minutes of cell phone use :.
Year
1994 :: 109 minutes
2001 :: 356 minutes
2006 :: 641 minutes

.: Industrywide investments in network operations and services :.
( this includes advanced wireless networks with high-speed Internet and data access )
Year
2001 :: $6.4 billion
2005 :: $9.6 billion

.: OSS :.
Operational support systems (OSS) are crucial to delivering and assuring high-performing services in high-volume environments. Yankee Group sees OSS as one of the next waves of investment supporting the delivery of data-enabled mobile services.

 

 Sunday, September 15, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 12:39 AM   0 comments   

THE STOCKMARKET :: OCTOBER THE BEAR KILLER?

October is reputed to be the biggest wealth destroyer:
:: crashes in 1929, 1987, the 554-point drop on Oct. 27, 1997, back-to-back massacres in 1978 and 1979 and Friday the 13th in 1989

October is also a bear killer, having turned the tide in nine post-World War II bear markets.

Short interest:
We are at record level of short interest in the market:
:: August 8,079,414,124 shares
:: July 7,554,090,306 shares

A massive rush by short sellers to buy stocks they sold may also generate the type of increased trading activity that bull markets thrive on.

 

 Friday, September 13, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 8:40 PM   0 comments   

:: BUNKER LE CIRQUE ::

An immersive experience.... a cool game....
BUNKER LE cirque

French language required.
"Je vous lance le defi de passer ce test d'aptitude au pouvoir."
Et bonne chance! (Vous en aurez besoin)

 


 Posted by Roberto
 5:14 PM   0 comments   

INTERESTING COMPANY: iParkSV

As Korean technology emerges as a major force in the global IT market, iParkSV assists successful Korean IT companies to establish their U.S. presence and drive outstanding revenue growth.

 


 Posted by Roberto
 12:07 AM   0 comments   

CENTER OF THE WORLD

Today, a friend of mine, called me and said: go to this website: "http://www.center-of-the-world.com/"
This website has shocked me for quality and content. What I've seen is great entertainment and no pornography... I consider this website an example of what future
adult broadband entertainment shall be... you enter a night club, you can click on dancers... and then suddenly you can go in the back of the night club and you are basically looking inside a room where the dancers are getting ready for getting on stage (and it really looks like live video streaming)... After a while, one beautiful woman, gets out of that room and invites you to chat with her... I've said no... but the video chat room appeared anyhow... I've spent 4 minutes on this "live video" chat...
They have done something very smart... basically the people answering to the text chat can activate "typing", "waiting sequences" for the beautiful lady that appears on the screen so that it looks totally credible, real... so great work... great entertainment :)

 

 Thursday, September 12, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:09 AM   0 comments   

THE INTERNET WILL BE USED AS A NEW CHANNEL FOR FILM DISTRIBUTION, ALLOWING PERSONAL COMPUTER USERS WITH BROADBAND ACCESS TO DOWNLOAD MOVIES.

The big players will be:
:: Movielink
:: Movies.com

MOVIELINK is a venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. ; Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures; Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Entertainment; Vivendi Universal's Universal Pictures; and AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. IBM will be responsible for Movielink's Web environment and providing the venture with a wide range of technology hosting.

Movies.com is backed by Walt Disney Co.

 

 Wednesday, September 11, 2002
 Posted by Roberto
 1:22 PM   0 comments   

802.11x

by 2005, despite the recession and lower corporate budgets for information technology, some 90 percent of all professionals and telecommuters expect to use high-speed wireless data, two-thirds of all corporations expect to make critical enterprise applications available wirelessly, and U.S. business spending on wireless communications will double to $74 billion according to Gartner Group, Meta Group, and Cahners In-Stat.

2.4 GHz: HomeRF, 802.11b, Bluetooth
5 GHz: HiperLAN2, 802.11a, Wireless 1394

Related Companies:

Boingo
Mobilstar
Monzoon
Karlnet
Intersil

 


 Posted by Roberto
 1:17 PM   0 comments   

DOWNLOADABLE MOBILE GAMING

Analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.wireless.frost.com), World Mobile Gaming Markets, reveals that this industry generated revenues totaling $436.4 million in 2001. Steady growth for messaging-based, web-based and downloadable mobile gaming could push total revenues to $9.34 billion in 2008. Before this sector can realize its full potential, market participants will have to implement micro-billing systems. As consumers are apprehensive about making over-the-air payments with credit cards for mobile services, network operators will need to use billing-on-behalf-of-others (BOBO) techniques to collect revenues for content providers. "Most network operators in North America and Europe will have to work hard to implement micro-billing systems for third-party content," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Kshitij Moghe. "Although they recognize the importance of the BOBO model, few had the mechanism in place at the end of 2001."

 


 Posted by Roberto
 1:16 PM   0 comments   

NOKIA BOOSTS SOFTWARE DOMINANCE

Nokia, as the world's largest mobile phone maker, moves beyond handset manufacturing into software development. Korea's Samsung Electronics, the world's third-largest handset manufacturer with a 9.5 percent market share (Samsung is also the world's fastest growing mobile phone maker), will use Nokia's Series 60 Platform software for its multimedia phones. Earlier this year Nokia signed up Japanese rival Matsushita and Germany's Siemens.

The agreement is another blow to Microsoft's ambitions to break into the software market for phones. It also confirms Nokia's leading position in selling mobile phone software.

Symbian produces the operating system on top of which Nokia runs its Series 60 applications. Symbian, a Psion spin-off that is now jointly owned by Psion and many handset makers including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Siemens and Matsushita.

 
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